HISTORY / 1986

Intelligence as many processes

Minsky’s Society of Mind proposed that complex thought can arise from the interaction of many specialized processes.

What happened next

The book remains an influential conceptual account of cognition. Its internal agents are not identical to today’s tool-using software agents; the connection is a useful question rather than a claim of direct equivalence.

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